#PDF Packet

Your best images, a cover and the floorplan, bound into one PDF you can email to a client.

A PDF Packet is the leave-behind: a single landscape PDF with one image to a page, an optional cover in front and the Spec Sheet's floorplan at the back. You pick the images from the Camera Roll, drag the pages into the order you want them read, and download. The image pages and the floorplan carry your project's footer, so the packet reads as one piece of stationery with your floorplan PDF. It is built in your browser — nothing is uploaded.

The PDF Packet is included on the Basic plan and up.

#What it does

#Where it opens from

The PDF Packet button is in three places:

• The Camera Roll window. Open the Capture Rendering panel, click the Camera Roll button, and PDF Packet is in the window's header.
• The Library. The Camera Roll tab has a PDF Packet button. Images you ticked in Edit Mode arrive as the packet's first pages.
• A batch of Viewpoint captures. See "Straight from a batch" below.

All three open the same window, titled PDF Packet.

#Pick your images

The lower half of the window, headed Camera Roll, shows every finished capture that is not in the packet yet. Each tile has a + in its corner.

• Click an image and it joins the packet after the last image.
• Drag an image up into the pages and it goes in at the place you drop it. A bar between two tiles shows where it will land.
• Add All puts in every image on show, in order.

When every image is in, the area reads "Every image here is in the packet."

#One grid of pages

The top half, headed Pages, is the packet itself: one numbered tile per page, in the order they will print. There is no second list — what you see in the grid is the PDF.

• Reorder by dragging a tile to its new place. The other pages step aside as you pass them.
• Remove a page with the ✕ in its corner, or drag it back down onto the images below. While you hold it there, the tile reads Remove.
• Clear takes every image out and leaves the cover and the floorplan where they are.
• On a touch screen, drag a page by the grip beside its name, and tap an image to add it.
• From the keyboard, focus a page's grip and press the arrow keys to move it earlier or later.
• Escape while you are dragging puts the tile back.

A page whose image has both an AI Enhance version and the plain capture shows a small picker on its tile — AI Enhance or Original — so you choose which one prints.

#The cover and the floorplan are tiles too

The cover and the floorplan sit in the same grid as the images and move the same way. The cover starts as the first page and the floorplan as the last; drag either one anywhere.

Each has a switch in the panel on the right. Switch one off (or remove its tile) and the page is left out; switch it back on and it returns to the place it had. The packet remembers how you last set it up — cover, cover photo, floorplan and image size — in your browser.

#The cover's words

Under Cover Page, click Add a Cover Page, then:

• Title and Subtitle — type your own, or leave them blank. A blank field uses the project's name and the subtitle from its footer, shown in the empty box, so an untouched cover already reads correctly.
• Photo behind the title — on, the cover prints its words over the first image in the packet. Off, the cover is a plain title page.

The cover also prints the client's name above the title, and the venue, room and date beneath it, when the project has them.

#The floorplan page

The floorplan page is on to begin with; if you switched it off, Add the Floorplan Page under Floorplan Page brings it back. It is the same page the Spec Sheet's own Download PDF prints — the same framing and labels — so the packet and the floorplan PDF never disagree.

A large room takes a moment: the panel reads "Getting the floorplan ready…" and then "The floorplan from your Spec Sheet is in the packet." A project with nothing to draw reads "This project has no floorplan to add yet." and the page is left out.

#The footer

Every page except the cover carries the project's footer. Under Footer, at the bottom of the window:

• Pick the layout — Classic strip, Drafting block, Logo lockup or No footer.
• Click any text in the footer preview to change it.
• Logo switches the footer's logo mark on or off. The switch appears on plans that include removing the EVT3D watermark.

This is the project's one footer, not a copy for the packet: change it here and the floorplan PDF changes with it. In a project with several design options, the subtitle, version, venue and room belong to the option on screen; everything else is shared.

#Image size

Image Size sets how large each image is inside the PDF:

• 4K — 3840 px (where it starts)
• 2K — 2560 px
• HD — 1920 px
• Original size

Images are only ever made smaller, never enlarged, and a smaller size makes a smaller file. Each image page is exactly as tall as its image needs, so a capture fills its page edge to edge; the cover and the floorplan take the shape most of your images share.

#The file name

File Name is filled in for you from the project's details: client, project, subtitle, date and version, joined with underscores and shortened to fit — for example Acme_SKO27_GS_101126_v3.pdf. Type over it to use a name of your own; clear the box and the built name comes back.

#Download

Download PDF builds the packet and saves it. It needs at least one image. The line beside the button shows progress while the packet is built, then reads, for example, "Downloaded — 12 pages, 18.4 MB."

If the file is over 25 MB, the line says so and suggests a smaller Image Size — most email will not carry a larger attachment. An image that could not be loaded is left out, and the line tells you how many.

#Straight from a batch

A batch of Viewpoint captures (made in the Viewpoints panel's Render Batch section) does not have to be sent to the Camera Roll first. Its PDF Packet button — on the batch's tile under Render Batches in the Camera Roll window, and on the batch's review screen — opens the packet with every shot in the batch already a page, in shot order.

Inside the window, buttons above the images switch between the Camera Roll and each batch, so one packet can take pages from several of them. Batches stay as they are; nothing is sent to the Camera Roll by making a packet.

#How you use it

1. Capture your views. Take the stills you want the client to see (see Camera Roll).
2. Open the packet. Click PDF Packet in the Camera Roll window or on the Library's Camera Roll tab.
3. Add the images. Click each one in the order you want it read, or click Add All.
4. Put the pages in order. Drag the tiles in the Pages grid. Drag an image up to drop it between two pages.
5. Add a cover. Click Add a Cover Page, and type a Title and Subtitle if the project's own are not what you want.
6. Keep or drop the floorplan. It is on by default and starts as the last page.
7. Check the footer. Pick a layout and click any text to correct it.
8. Pick the image size. Leave it at 4K for print; drop to 2K or HD for a smaller file.
9. Check the file name, then click Download PDF.

#Why it matters

A client rarely opens a folder of twelve images in the order you meant. A packet puts the story in one file: the cover says what it is, the images walk the room in your order, and the floorplan closes it with the facts. It opens on any device and forwards as one attachment.

Because the cover and the floorplan are pages like any other, the packet is yours to arrange — floorplan first for a production meeting, hero image first for a pitch. And because the footer and the floorplan page are the project's own, the packet always matches what the Spec Sheet prints.